Edward Strong Wilson ’33

Ed Wilson died peacefully at his home in Columbia Cross Roads, Pa., Aug. 20, 1996, after a long bout with cancer.

He was born in Seattle, Wash., but grew up in Montclair, N.J., and came to Princeton from Montclair H.S. At Princeton he was a member of Gateway Club. After college he began a career in financial and securities analysis, which, although interrupted by service with the Army in Europe during WWII, nevertheless spanned more than five decades and involved being a partner or research director at a number of NYC firms.

In the late 1950s and early 1960s he was president of the Assn. of Customs Brokers and of the New York Society of Securities Analysts. He was chairman of the Foreign Field Trip Committee of the Financial Analysts Federation and always took pride in the successful trips to European financial capitals which he ran for them in 1961 and 1964.

Ed spent much of his time on his family's Century Farm in Columbia Crossroads where he raised Newfoundland dogs. He served as president of the Newfoundland Club of America from 1958-62.

He is survived by his wife of 56 years, Evelyn Sprague Wilson, by his daughter, Dr. Heather Weber, his sons, Rockwell S., and Chistopher S. '71, 10 grandchildren, and one great-grandchild.

The Class of 1933